Re: [PATCH 0/2] [GIT PULL] tracing: various bug fixes

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Apr 22 2009 - 17:32:38 EST



On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:

>
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> > >
> > >
> > > > Do you have CONFIG_PARAVIRT on? When I disabled it, I have yet to
> > > > reproduce the bug. But I've only rebooted a few times. I'm going to
> > > > continue to reboot to see if I can trigger it.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes it is enabled.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm thinking that the paravirt alternative code may have clobbered a
> > > > register in either the enable or disabling of interrupts. This might cause
> > > > a strange value to go into the hardirqs_enabled flag.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ok I will try it without PARAVIRT and tell you if I can reproduce it.
> > >
> >
> > Interesting. What code is generated for native_irq_enable/disable?
>
> Note, when I take my standard config and enable PARAVIRT and LOCKDEP it
> still boots up fine. It may be a combination of some configs :-/
>
> I'm currently doing a "config bisect" to find out what configs are needed.

I just finished the config bisect, and it came down to
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC (set is bad, not set is good). I'm sure this is not
the only config that is at issue. It is probably a combination of configs
:-/

I'll try others to see if things change.

-- Steve

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